[Adam's POV]
I was currently standing on a field the size of a soccer field. About 15 feet away from me stood my teacher, Mr. Ralph, who was holding a white sword in his hands. Today I started my training with Mr. Ralph. I did nothing for the two weeks that passed except doing normal exercises like push ups, sit ups, squats and running around the field I was currently standing on. For dragons my age, which was 5 years old although I look like a ten year old, they could easily do 500 for each exercise.
I was wearing a white long sleeve t‐shirt which was currently rolled up to my elbow and black pants, they were perfect for moving around with and also good for training. I was also holding a white sword which was perfect for my size. My teacher and I were looking at each other directly in the eyes, after a short moment he spoke up.
"Adam, use everything in your hands to try to block me."
Then without any warning at all, he suddenly disappeared! He appeared right in front of me and he simply swung his sword at me. I brought up my sword in front of my face, then both swords collided with each other!
*Clang!*
"Aghh!!" A groan involuntarily left my lips as the impact was so strong that I was pushed off the ground and flew backwards flying. I forced my legs to go behind me as they touched the ground, it took a moment for me to stop going backwards and stabilize myself on the ground.
'I was lucky I didn't fall on my back! That hit like a train! At least my slight exercises paid off.'
I looked at the trail of dent on the ground that was caused by me trying to stop myself from going further backwards. I was not joking about the force of the impact between the swords as it took everything from me to try to stop it, I thought I would die! However, I suddenly felt something wet falling down my nose and also at the edge of my mouth, I wiped it with my hand, as I looked down at what it was, I found something red, blood!
*clap* *clap* *clap*
I looked up to meet the eyes of my teacher who had an amused expression on his face while clapping.
"Excellent job! You manage to parry that swing! But don't worry, a nosebleed and coughing blood is the minimum damage you can get, you were lucky you didn't break something!"
My mouth twitched upon hearing what he said, after all, this was too much! Of course, I had enough trust in my teacher to handle everything, but still, I was a bit annoyed at him, that's all.
"Catch!"
He suddenly threw a glass bottle at me catching me off guard, but of course, I caught it! I looked at it, it was a small round bottle with a red liquid inside flowing, sometimes bubbles erupted from its surface. A healing potion!
"drink it and start running around the field!"
Huh? I looked at the field around me which was a square shape the size of a soccer field. It was too big! Noticing my confused face, my teacher spoke up.
"It's to increase your Stamina and durability. Now go!"
"Okay!"
I, of course, did not have any complaints to make as this was training. I immediately gulped down the healing potion and ran to one of the corners of the field. Upon arriving, I began to stretch to loosen up my muscles for better performance. After a minute of stretching I moved into a running position, all this happening under the watchful eyes of my teacher but I didn't care and did my own thing.
After preparing, I ran at full speed since I wanted to know how long I can last while running at my current max speed.
1...2…..3….4…10
"huff!….huff!…huff! I am completely exhausted! Ten laps is the maximum I can do with this body."
I was currently laying down on my back breathing heavily. I ran 10 laps until I was completely exhausted, all this happened in 40 minutes which was quite impressive. It also shows my current speed as for normal humans they couldn't even half a full lap before they got exhausted. For other dragons my age, they could at least run for 4 laps before they are exhausted. This just shows how high my durability is since I can last longer than normal dragons. But right now, I need water!
As if God was answering my players, Mr. Ralph walked up to me holding a bottle of water and a white towel. I sat up, and he gave me the water first which I immediately gulped down.
"aah~"
A satisfied sound escaped my lips as I finished drinking all the water. Mr. Ralph then handed me the white towel which I use to clean off the sweat that accumulated when I was running. As I was cleaning myself, Mr. Ralph spoke up.
"Good job, young master. You managed to last longer than I originally expected." he said with a satisfied smile on his face, I also returned a satisfied smile of my own since I was quite happy even though it was not a big achievement for me to get happy about, but still, being happy about something small is quite the nice feeling as I decided to let go control of my emotions. In this world, I was going to feel everything. In my past life, I only showed and expressed my true feelings to violet, however, I wasn't going to do that in this world.
…..
In my previous life I was a normal human. I didn't have any memories of who I truly was when I was growing up. When I was born, I had no memories, just like any normal would have been when they were born for the first time. I live happily with my parents, I was their only child since my mother had an accident making her unable to bear any more kids. The only thing exceptional about my family was that they were extremely rich, they were the second most richest family in the entire world with me being the only heir of that family.
I had everything since birth, I was smart for a normal kid, I was beautiful for a normal kid, I had friends, everything I needed was available for me! Yet, I always felt something was missing in my life, I couldn't figure it out at that time since I was still a child growing up. That was when it happened, when I was 12 years old, I went out to play with my friends just like any other normal day. That's where I met her, Violet, who at that time was still young and the same age as me, I was immediately attracted to her.
She was on the other side of the street talking and laughing with her other female friends, she was beautiful, she had white hair and white eyes. However, her beauty wasn't what attracted me to her, it was the longing I felt when I looked towards her, my heart started beating faster and my emotions were becoming more and more chaotic. Perhaps noticing my gaze, she turned in my direction which made our eyes meet.
Upon meeting my gaze, she stopped in her tracks, her friends also stopped when they saw her stop, however, she simply told them to go on without her which made her friends hesitant to do so but she still convinced them. I also did the same thing to my friends moments ago, leaving me and her staring at each other in the eyes. There I saw it, I could see the same longing in her eyes the way it also showed in my eyes which made me and her surprised at that moment. However, I finally understood what I was missing in my life, it was her! She was my fated one! We both were destined to be together from the very beginning.
And as the gentleman I was, I went to her, then asked her out on a date which she immediately agreed to. It took little time for us to be together. At 16 years old, we married, although there were some surprises from certain people, we did not care and simply married anyway. But before that, I learned that her family forced an engagement upon her which I immediately used my family power to break it off. Of course after that, I made the one she was engaged to suffer before he was killed by a truck when he was crossing the road which happened when violet and I were 18 years old.
When we both married to each other, we also gained our memories about who we truly are. Which also came along with some of our abilities making our lives easier. But our lives completely changed when we were choosing to go to another world which made us happy, we were supposed to die by a giant truck crashing into earth but truck-kun would have made everyone go to the world we were going to or another world which we did not want, so our only choice was a giant meteor that was big enough to destroy earth.
….
It has been four months since I started training, during which I learned many things, my teacher kept praising me about this and that, I mean I wasn't mad at him since I read about swordsmanship in my mind making me understand it more, and also the experience I got thanks to the benefits of being chosen made it feel as if I had being holding the sword for hundreds of years, it felt like the sword was part of my body.
During those years, I hadn't been only training since I also had to attend private classes about math, science, history, biology, and many other subjects, making my schedule tight.
'Status!'
I thought, making a translucent screen appear before my eyes.
[ Name: Adam Banehorn
Age: 5 (???)
Race: dragon
Family: Coralith banehorn(mother) Chronarch banehorn(father) Astridra Banehorn(sister, lover) Astarot Banehorn(older brother)
Titles: young master, master, dragon prince, little brother, student.
Class: (swordsman–C+)
Stats:
MP– C
Strength– D+
Stamina– D+
Speed– D+
Endurance– D+
Durability– D+
Precision– D+
Intelligence– B-
Rank: D+
Quest: 1! ]
I was satisfied with my stats, although it looks bad with all the Ds all around, do not be deceived! For newborn dragons, rank D+ is an impressive feat to achieve since it's close to being able to destroy a very small village alone. To destroy a big kingdom alone, dragons had to be ranked SS+ in order to do it; higher would be overkill for a big kingdom since it would only take a dragon at least 5 minutes to completely destroy it. Yeah! Dragons are walking nuclear weapons that are able to destroy the world if they wanted to! Now imagine the horror of people if they knew there exist millions of dragons! In the human world, only certain important people in each kingdom knew one of the existence of a kingdom in the dragon empire, along with all the other races.
Strength and Stamina was easy to achieve, for endurance and durability, my teacher beat the hell out of me in order for me to increase those two stats of mine. For precision, all I had to do was land a hit on my target, and all the other stats were easy to improve. My mana increased naturally, it was only pure mana, no skills or techniques, I can't even form a fireball, in order to do that, I had to build my star and foundation which is easy for me since I knew what I had to do.
In the dragon empire, there are only five 9th star mages according to what my brother told me on his visit. My mother was one of them, followed by her friend who was with her since she was little. Her friend still wasn't married or had any kids(you know what that means :) kekeke!) The third was the second youngest child of the emperor and empress, and also my older sister, she was known as the most genius person in the entire empire for magic even though she was only one hundred years old which was considered a young adult by dragons. The other two were currently out of the dragon empire staying in the human world where only one was known as the 9th star mage currently ruling the mage/magicians guild, the other one was just enjoying himself. Mages were mostly females as males tend to prefer fighting with weapons or hands, the five 9th star mages were females with only one male amongst them.
I was currently drinking tea while reading a newspaper related to the human world. Apparently a hero has been born, one who will help humanity defeat the demon king and the one who has managed to wield the holy sword. Just like any cliché isekai story, there is a demon king in this world who wants to destroy it and the hero who had to stop it from ever happening. Although my father could easily kill the demon king, he doesn't want to, I mean, why would he? He isn't the hero of humanity, the only thing he cares about is his family and empire, everything else is just a waste of time. Although he has all the time in the world, he would still rather spend it on his people.
Today was my free day off from everything. I had to prepare since tomorrow I would have to go down to the land to hunt along with my teacher, it was to gain experience of fighting a real battle between life and death. Everything I needed, I already packed up, which mainly involves a sword, armor, potions, and some other things. However, food is not included since we had to eat what we hunt, along with water even though me and my teacher could probably go weeks without needing food or water. But our vacation would be a long one, we will go down there to train, kill some monster which involves goblins, orcs, ants and magic beasts.
Although dragons ruled the western continent, it does not mean there aren't any other living beings besides dragons. In the western continent resides clans of wolf's, fox, and cats, along with dwarves even though they are most populated in the Eastern continent where the main base of all the races mentioned above are station. However, humans do not exist in the western continent as they are too weak to survive.
Snapping out of my own thoughts, I looked at the sun which was going down meaning it was about to get dark. I sat up, and lazily stretched my arms making a yawn escape my lips.
'should probably go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day after all.'
This world is changing now due to the existence of a hero, more powerful enemies would show up, and to survive, I had to gain strength enough for me to beat all existence in the universe. I, too, had a mission to accomplish after all.
With that, I went to my room with an excited smile on my face.
'It's bound to be fun!'